Xone: DB4- the official unofficial thread

[fullenglishpint]

Now start doing some filter sweeps and using the auto loopers to really take it up a notch

I've run my TV through it a few times to listen through my monitors and things get pretty trippy when you start effecting and looping stuff

Haha way ahead of you dude. A couple of weeks ago I had a CD of 1950s East German communist music that I was studying for a university module and I had a lot ​of fun with FX and loopers.

[mostapha]

Sorry, 'bout the effects thing. If you're already spinning with Ableton, you've got a lot at your fingertips and some way to control it all. I agree that some hardware gives better control…maybe I need to spend some time with a db4, but I just don't see how it's controls are better than a basic Ableton mapping.

Then again, we might be thinking of different things by "basic" there.

I guess I just see it the opposite of mrpopinjay. I'd use it with TTs/CDJs long before I'd think about it for Live.

[MrPopinjay]

I meant more specifically if you're carrying it from club to club- I certainly wouldn't want to either unhook the club mixer and replace it with the DB4 or have to DJ with a mixer that was no where near the turntables themselves. Replacing the club mixer with your own doesn't seem feasible.

[Cook]

Move the CDJs a bit further apart and stick your db4 down next to the club mixer, run line from master on db 4 into a channel on

/win

[MrPopinjay]

Always possible but yeah that's probably the best idea assuming you have enough space. You could use the EQ on the club mixer as an isolator- bonus!

[neilmcm]

I have got Maschine and wonder how you go about hooking it up the dB4 do I need to have a audio interface for putting into the mic channel or best to use one of the channel using the matrix input.

[fullenglishpint]

You could just use the DB4's internal sound card as the output device for maschine or whichever DAW you're using it in.

[narrah]

I have got Maschine and wonder how you go about hooking it up the dB4 do I need to have a audio interface for putting into the mic channel or best to use one of the channel using the matrix input.

check out the DB4 forum page, whilst its far from flourishing, there are some posts directly related to your question.

[narrah]

For those booths with no room it would be nice to have a mould similar to a deck saver that fitted atop a DJM mixer and provided a slight angled elevation of the db4. The db4 is light.... proberly more visable if you played at the venue on a regular basis.

[fullenglishpint]

check out the DB4 forum page, whilst its far from flourishing, there are some posts directly related to your question.

Just to clarify, I think TDSDJ means the DB4 page of the Xone forums.

Lol, just realised that turning that name into an anagram makes it sound like 'tedious DJ'